Thursday, September 24, 2009

His Girl Friday (1940)

Second viewing.

A woman journalist is quitting the profession and getting married. She pays a visit to her ex-husband and ex-boss in the newspaper office where she worked, and he plots to make her reverse her decisions by using a man about to be executed as a bait.

Smart and funny, flawlessly directed. I wish I had more time and energy to review this as it deserves.

Rating: 73 (up from 70) (moved to my list of bests of 1940, in the 8th position.)

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